The WRC has done the best thing ever to help assuage the off-season blues. All of their highlight shows from the 2001 through 2008 seasons are live on their YouTube Shows page. This is brilliant, and hopefully a trend that will get picked up by other racing series. I’m lookin’ at you IZOD IndyCar Series! I would also say I was lookin’ at F1, but lets be realistic, Bernie is too much of a troll to allow people to watch old seasons of his circus for free. Here’s the announcement…
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IndyCar – Olá!, Brasil!
Well, its finally official. The IZOD IndyCar Series will in fact open the 2010 season in Brazil, but not in Rio as many originally thought, but in São Paulo. Here’s what Terry Angstadt had to say in an article posted at IndyCar.com: “While our primary focus continues to be building the IZOD IndyCar Series domestically, the race in Brazil affords us a unique opportunity to visit a country that has a huge passion for open-wheel racing. With strong support from our major partner Apex-Brasil, a significant television package from TV…
Read MoreStar Mazda – 2009 Season Review – Battle for the Championship
Star Mazda Series – 2009 Season Review Battle for the Championship: Circuit Trois-Rivières Headed into the home stretch for the 2009 Star Mazda Championship, rookie Adam Christodoulou and Peter “The Irish Steamroller” Dempsey were locked in a battle for the lead. Coming to Quebec, Dempsey had a slight edge on Christodoulou, but with four races left Peter’s 19-point lead was tenuous at best. The first weekend for the series north of the border wouldn’t turn out great for either contender, but especially not for Peter. He and his team missed…
Read MoreIndyCar – USF2000 Schedule Fun!
The newly reformed USF2000 series (sanctioned by the IRL) has released their 2010 schedule and it has a few interesting tidbits on it that we should talk about. First, here is the schedule. 3/27 – 3/28 St. Petersburg 5/29 O’riely Raceway Park 6/19 Iowa 6/26-6/27 New Jersey Motorsport Park 7/31 Autobahn Country Club, Joliet, IL 8/21-8/22 Road America 9/30-10/1 Road Atlanta Note that St. Petersburg, New Jersey Motorsport Park, and Autobahn Country Club will be double events. St. Petersburg and Iowa will be held on the same weekend as the…
Read MoreLe Mans – Highcroft and Acura 2010
While we await formal news about Acura’s factory involvement with the American Le Mans series, the Patron Highcroft team has announced they will stay with the Acura. The car they chose is the surprising part. The team has chosen to run the ARX-01C which took Fernandez racing to championship glory in 2009. The article on Autosport states the team will continue to work with Honda Performance Development, however Acura has been relatively quiet since the season ended. Highcroft racing believes that given the performance of LMP2 car at Laguna Seca,…
Read MoreIndyCar – Andretti Autosport Announced
Michael Andretti has completed dealings with former team co-owners Kevin Savoree and Kim Green. As was announced previously, Michael Andretti is now the sole owner of Andretti Autosport, while Green and Savoree have taken over ownership of what was previously Andretti Green Promotions which promotes the Toronto and St. Petersburg IndyCar races. Andretti says that they will stick with a four driver lineup next year, but we await official announcements of who all of those drivers will be. Tony Kanaan and Marco Andretti are locked in with the newly named…
Read MoreV8 SuperCars – They’re coming to America!!
That’s right! The Australian V8 Supercars Championship Series is returning to the US airwaves beginning next season following a three-year deal with Speed TV. …yeah, that’s the bummer part of it. We have to wait until next year, but at least we have a great series to watch over the next off-season. NASCAR should take note, the Aussies do stock car racing properly and with MODERN fuel-injected V8s, a proper racing engine! Here’s an excerpt from their press release: V8 Supercars Australia Executive Chairman, Tony Cochrane, said the deal was…
Read MoreMovember – Help Fight Men’s Cancer
Shaun and I have joined up with John’s Movember team over at Last Ditch Racing to help change the face of men’s health. This month of Movember, we have been farming our mustaches in an attempt to grow gnarly facial hair and in the process, raise money for the Prostate Cancer Foundation and the Lance Armstrong Foundation which research men’s cancers. For those not in the know, “Mo” is Australian slang for mustache. What many people don’t know is that 1 in 6 men will be diagnosed with prostate cancer…
Read MoreOP-Ed – Support Your Local Tracks
As fans of IndyCar racing, Formula 1, MotoGP, WRC, we constantly hear about these fantastic venues. Who doesn’t want to go to Indianapolis to see the IndyCars, or to Spa to see Formula 1, or to Phillip Island to see the MotoGP race, or to Cyprus to the WRC? Many of us live cheap and save up over the off-season, giving $5 McDonald’s gift certificates as Christmas presents just so we can afford those big trips to those exotic venues. While doing this, though, we often overlook the true gems…
Read MoreStar Mazda – 2009 Season Review – The Mid-Season Grind
Star Mazda Series – 2009 Season Review The Mid-Season Grind: The first double-header of the season was at the New Jersey Motorsports Park. Both races were won from the pole, Race 1 by Conor Daly and Race 2 by Richard Kent, and it was the first victory of the year for both race winners. Conor struggled on Sunday inspite of winning the pole and race on Saturday. On Sunday, his car was not the same and he fought an oversteering car all day, finishing Race 2 exactly where he started…
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